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by ionised 7y ago
> Imho: because Western populations care about environmentalism and don't like to use their power to compel others, even if that would be more efficient. Do you really believe western nations don't use their power to compel poo
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by ionised 7y ago
A poorer nation probably will misrepresent what they do with the trash. The sellers can't in all honestly claim they didn't know this would be the result.
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by ionised 7y ago
This is a childish excuse.
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by ionised 7y ago
So when you say that stating there are no boundaries is a good thing for Israel, would you have held that same view in the 1930's and 1940's when most of Europe was busy trying to resist another organisation that also did not beli
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by ionised 7y ago
> Also, as an Israeli, I can 100% confirm that Israelis have absolutely no issues with crossing any kind of boundary. The fact that others think that such a thing as "boundaries" exist only serves as an advantage. Maybe as an I
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by ionised 7y ago
> The "recurring revenue" model has really soured the experience of playing video games. In fairness, that particular model seems to be mainly attributed to the kind of EA/Ubi/Acti/ annual 'AAA blockbuster&#
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by ionised 7y ago
This is telling me that 45 tweets are coming from North Korea.
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by ionised 7y ago
It's a badly-kept secret that Monsanto suppressed various studies on glyphosate to hide unfavourable results.
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by ionised 7y ago
> Glyphosate isn't carcinogenic. Opinion is divided on that assertion. Even Monsanto seems unsure. Why else would they suppress so much unfavourable research and employ all those social media shills?
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by ionised 7y ago
You don't think giving someone a terminal illness is worth appropriate compensation? What you described as compensation I would describe as adding insult to injury.
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by ionised 7y ago
It's possible to address more than one injustice at a time.
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by ionised 7y ago
Plus, as a nation it meets its own definition of a rogue state.
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by ionised 7y ago
> The nation isn't perfect, but does anyone really believe that, on net, America hasn't been a force for good in the world? What is your benchmark? Lots of people all over the world who have been on the receiving end of US mili
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by ionised 7y ago
It's not a rebranding. IntelliJ IDEA is still IntelliJ IDEA and is still owned by Jet Brains. Android Studio is just Google's own version of it.
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by ionised 7y ago
Default opt-outs for absolutely everything.
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by ionised 7y ago
If heroin were really harmful, you'd see users quitting en masse too, surely? And what about Palm Oil? If those plantations were really a major contributing factor in climate change people would stop using it surely? Come on. The popul
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by ionised 7y ago
The implication you're making is that a larger fine or existential threat to the company is somehow 'wrong'. I would disagree, as would many others.
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by ionised 7y ago
It may deter smaller firms. It's won't deter Facebook.
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by ionised 7y ago
How would that deter them though?
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by ionised 7y ago
What is he making up? This seems like Facebook's MO as far as I can tell.
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by ionised 7y ago
Most games are still 'pay once upfront'.
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by ionised 7y ago
> The whole reason to use Electron garbage is to build cross-platform crapware on the cheap. Indeed. I feel like Electron encourages bad practice by allowing the developer to avoid the work of learning to write a native desktop app in fa
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by ionised 7y ago
Pistols at dawn.
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by ionised 7y ago
This is the most Silicon Valley response I could have hoped for.
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by ionised 7y ago
You're equating the human drive for a better life with capitalism. This is a common propaganda talking point that attempts to paint 'capitalism' as a natural drive rather than an ideology. Capitalism is merely the private own
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by ionised 7y ago
A lot of what you are talking about here is still the case in much of the world. In other parts of the world where it is no longer true, it will absolutely make a comeback unless we can halt and reverse the damage being done by the levels o
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by ionised 7y ago
> Individually, if I'm a heroin user, clearly I must be valuing the shooting of Heroin higher than my own health. Right, which is why I think 'creating value' in and of itself is meaningless if you can't distinguish i
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by ionised 7y ago
It doesn't matter whether I know you or not. Nobody can speak and listen at the same time.
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by ionised 7y ago
No, you just think you can. Everybody else can plainly see that you aren't listening if all you're doing is talking.
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by ionised 7y ago
Why do you say private contracting is rare in the UK? Every software company I've been to here is like 50% contractors.

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